Shad Family History
- Shad Name Meaning
- Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic shad ‘happy’. English: metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller, from Old English sceadd ‘shad’, a kind of fish. Reaney and Wilson note that during the Old English period there was a ‘shad season’, so it must have been of some economic importance. Americanized spelling of German Schade.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 17,035 Historical Documents with Shad on Ancestry
- 6,777 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,372 Census and Voter Lists
- 984 Military Records
- 581 Immigration Records
- 3,321 Member Trees
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Number of Shad families
 13 - 23  5 - 12 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Shad census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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